Zhang Chao said: "Thank you."

Qu Yi smiled helplessly and said, "It's useless for me to use these things."

Then he sighed and felt very melancholy. With his fifteenth-grade martial arts, he could only live in a small mountain village. He was depressed and had nowhere to vent.

Zhang Chao said: "I will say goodbye to Shufen, and then I will have to leave."

"OK."

After a while, Zhang Chao and Qu Yi came to the familiar old pear tree. Shufen's family was building a house. Zhang Chao shouted: "Shufen, I'm leaving. Do you have anything to say to Gao Lan? You also know that Gao Lan is selling private salt. He is elusive, and I can't guarantee that you can bring your words to you."

Shufen turned around and smiled, "I have nothing to say, I'm thanking Mr. Zhang."

"Okay, goodbye. Then I thought about it and suggested that your baby join Cao Cao."

Zhang Chao felt quite strange. Did this woman not even say anything to thank Gao Lan?

So heartless!

Just as he turned around, a black cloud appeared in the sky and rushed towards Shixi Village at an extremely fast speed. Zhang Chao said in confusion: "What's this thing?"

Even other villagers who rebuilt the village on the ground found black clouds in the sky. Just as everyone was talking, an old man suddenly shouted: "Not good!"

He looked scared, as if he saw a demon.

At this time, Shufen also remembered something. The sense of horror engraved with genes spread throughout her body. Suddenly someone shouted: "There are locusts, the cause of locusts."

Yes, this is the locust. If it weren't for the locusts that had been in trouble for three years, Gao Lan would still be farming with her now.

In that case, Gao Lan would not leave, and no one would die in the village.

Five thousand people starved to death in a village with a population of 8,000.

"Look for the village chief! Who will go find the village chief?"

Someone started yelling again, and several villagers ran around looking for the village chief.

Zhang Chao asked: "Is there any way for the village chief? How did the village chief solve the locusts in the past?"

In this era without pesticides, Zhang Chao had no idea how to deal with locusts.

Shufen said anxiously: "The village chief invited Shixi Mountain God to help him. I don't know what exactly it did."

After talking, Shufen remembered the village chief. If the village chief hadn't given her and Gao Lan some food occasionally, they would have died. When she was digging the roots of trees in the mountains, what she most looked forward to was meeting the village chief, because the village chief could always create food for her.

Zhang Chao is full of black lines. Isn’t the village chief the Shixi Mountain God? How did he do it?

At this moment, the dark clouds in the sky stopped, and the locust spirit looked at Shixi Village below with a sneer and excitedly said, "Old Shixi Man, it took you three years to defeat me back then, but unfortunately you died, otherwise I really wanted to let you see how the villagers you protected were starved to death, hahaha! Young people, chew all Shixi Village for me!"

With a command, millions of locusts rushed into Shixi Village. Many villagers raised their torches to drive them away. Unfortunately, this was useless. Instead, the locusts stopped on the houses, on the trees, and in the fields not far away, and kept gnawing.

Everything is disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye,

Zhang Chao was surprised. The group of locusts even gnawed at the wooden house.

"Help! I can't live anymore."

Many women sat on the ground and cried constantly, and many villagers rushed to the farmland beside them, but before they got close, the farmland was gnawed clean by locusts, and the hard work of a year was gone.

"It's over, it's over." Shufen looked panicked, "After gnawing the village, they will still gnaw Shixi Mountain."

The tragic image of the bare Shixi Mountain back then is still vivid in my mind, and Shufen is still there and doesn’t know what to do.

There is no problem with Zhang Chao and Qu Yi. You can ask him to cut people one by one, and there is no problem with killing monsters, but he is helpless in the face of millions of locusts in the sky.

At this moment, Zhang Chao felt his chest hot. When he touched Gao Lan's soul stone was hot. When he took out the soul stone, he saw a black light rising into the sky and soon disappeared. He looked up at the sky and could not see anything except the black locusts.

This ray of light rushed over and rushed to the clouds before stopping. Soon the ray of light turned into a black shadow. There was another black shadow floating beside this shadow, and another black shadow was nervously paying attention to Shixi Village under the clouds.

Gao Lan's soul shadow spoke, this is a sound that only the soul can hear, and the living person cannot hear it, "Village Chief, what should we do now?"

It turned out that another black shadow was the head of Shixi Village.

The village chief said in surprise: "Ruanwang, are you dead?"

"I failed the village chief's expectations." Gao Lan was ashamed.

"There is no one who lives up to you. You don't have to be a great minister. A rich man is a success. You are free. I envy you. You can pursue your heart and like it, but I can't. I'm a fool. I'm new now. The magic I attached to the locust spirit has not completely disappeared. Please help me with your help. I can re-seal these locusts. Wait for another thirty days, the group of locusts will turn into sewage and completely disappear. Alas, it took only twenty days, but I was wrong."

"Village Chief, do you want to exhaust your soul power and the locust spirit to die together?"

The village chief did not say a word.

Gao Lan advised: "Collection, you are the God of Shixi Mountain. You can live forever with spells. Do this..."

"You boy doesn't understand. Actually, I don't want to be a mountain god. I have never loved the villagers. I used to protect the villagers just my job. If I don't do this, I will be punished by heaven and earth and lose my magic power. If all my magic power is lost, I will die. After all, I protect you for fear of death, but just work for survival. Since I met the winter flowers, I want to live for myself once.

Today I am willing to sacrifice my life for the villagers of Shixi, just like winter flowers, because I choose. I am willing. This is my only self-choice in my life, not a numb work. This is my only freedom. I need your help!”

"But, the village chief..."

Gao Lan always feels that it is a pity that the village chief has lost his immortal life like this.

"The rude mind is wrong! Gao Lan! Are you still willing to sacrifice for Shufen? Just like back then..."

then?

He remembered that on the evening when he left that year, it was raining heavily in the sky. Gao Lan came to the home under the old pear tree on the eve of his farewell. The door was closed and he gently patted the door, but no one responded.

He stood outside the door and shouted Shufen's name, but no one responded. He didn't know how long he had shouted, but his voice became hoarse. The heavy rain wet his hair, his underwear, and his hands and feet were cold until the soldier came. Before leaving, he threw a string of copper coins into the yard. It was 50 copper coins. With the previous bag of coarse grains, he sold himself at the price of three chickens.

Gao Lan's soul shadow said: "I wonder how the pear on the old pear tree tastes?"

"It's still the same unpalatable. Are you ready?"

Gao Lan looked at the old pear tree under the clouds, and Shufen's familiar panting sounded in his ears, and the soft sobs. Shufen covered her mouth and cried under the rain in the night.

Sorry, I shouldn't have let you cry, I have no choice!

This was the case back then, and it is the case now.

"Miss Minister, I'm ready."

"Come with me..."

Two black shadows rushed into Shixi Mountain not far away.

"Use fire! Use fire, ignite with torches, and ignite with fire!" Zhang Chao kept shouting. He knew that this method was not very useful, so he couldn't do nothing.

His ears were filled with the sound of locusts spreading their wings. The dense locusts covered the sky and the earth, making it difficult to walk. There were even locusts biting him, which was really painful.

"Help!"

"Help!"

Zhang Chao's roar was useless at all. The villagers were already panicked and kept waving their clothes and screaming, which was a look of despair.

After that, Zhang Chao's heart sank. Shixi Village has finished calculating. Based on his understanding of locusts, today is Shixi Village, tomorrow is other villages, the entire Chaisang, and even nearby Jingzhou and Yangzhou, millions of fields will be gnawed by them. I wonder how many people will starve to death!

Just when everyone was desperate, a huge stone suddenly flew from Shixi Mountain, hundreds of meters high, like a city floating above Shixi Village.

The locust that was making waves skipped a beat and thought to himself that it was not good. He raised his throat and shouted, "Little ones, escape! That damn mountain god is here again."

As soon as he finished speaking, a suction force came from above the boulder and pulled millions of locusts over. The locust spirit tried its best to break free from the boulder's constraints, but no matter how hard it struggled, it was useless. Instead, it was pulled towards the boulder at an extremely fast speed. Just as he pulled it with a red face, he heard a stinging sound, and the locust spirit's wings were torn off. At this moment, he was completely unable to get rid of the boulder's pull.

This is the leading locust spirit, and even more so is his group of little monsters.

The villagers in the sky watched the dark locust clouds rise slowly until they immersed in the boulders. Then the boulder flew over Shixi Village, flew into the distance, and into the deep mountains. When 30 days later, the group of locust spirits will be refined into ashes and completely disappeared.

"It's the mountain god, it's the mountain god who appears."

A villager pointed at the flying boulder and couldn't help but kneel down and kowtow.

Thousands of other infected villagers also knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the direction of the boulder.

"It's the mountain god, it's the mountain god who blesses us."

The villagers who survived the disaster began to miss the goodness of the mountain god. Everyone told the story of the mountain god with great enthusiasm, but they didn't know that from now on, their mountain god will be the most perfect god. They will never descend to earth or help them. They are just a spiritual sustenance and a symbol.

Their God is dead.

Zhang Chao looked confused. Is there really a mountain god?

Shufen said from the side: "It was the same last time, and it was the mountain god who saved us last time."

Unfortunately, it was one step late. If it had been a few months earlier, Gao Lan would not have left.

She still remembered that heavy rain that night, Gao Lan shouted her name loudly outside the wall. Shufen dared not open the door or answer. She could not stop anything. She could only squat in the corner of the wall and covered her mouth and cried. The sound of the rain magically covered her crying. In this way, she was inside the wall, Gao Lan was outside the wall, and a 3-centimeter-thick wooden wall became a gap that both of them could never cross. At this point, you die, I live, and yin and yang were separated.

Shufen looked at Zhang Chao's departure back and said to Qu Yi: "Mr. Zhang is a very gentle person."

Qu Yi: "???"

"He won't lie, Gao Lan is dead."

Qu Yi: "Maybe."

Shufen regretted a little. She didn't dare to agree that night. She didn't want Gao Lan to leave. She couldn't accept the pain of parting. If only she could open the door and take a good look at Gao Lan's appearance. Who would have thought that the more she refused to leave, the more she would be the last side of the rest of her life.

There was a black soul shadow faintly on the old pear tree not far away. There was a pear in his hand. At this moment, it was the twenty years, sixty-three days, seven hours and three minutes that Gao Lan left Shufen. He bit the pear in one bite. This time he did not peel it, just like when he was sixteen years old...
Chapter completed!